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Guy trying to hold a fart in meme template with the text “POV: you just mentioned you use Boost instead of the myriad FOSS alternatives”
on-topic rant
Use Jerboa if you want simple, go Voyager if you want modern and feature rich. Explore others if you want to find the best experience. Just stop supporting the only proprietary, ad-infested client.
off-topic rant
If you have trouble parsing the meme, this is a rare use of “POV” where the meme is actually from your POV and those three letters aren’t just slapped there like “nobody:” might be.
As others have said, there’s plenty of reasons to use a paid or ad supported app when FOSS alternatives exist. IMHO, people should have the option to be compensated for their time, money, and effort and they should be able to dictate the terms of that. I love FOSS, but I paid for Apollo and I would have gladly paid if he wanted to update it to be a Lemmy app. Apollo had better accessibility options than even Reddit themselves had, which were really important to me. Lots of apps were not feature complete when I switched from Reddit and plenty of apps still have bugs/missing features. I have a FOSS daily driver app that I use and I’m fortunate enough to be able to donate to. I understand that not everyone has the disposable income, but I don’t think it’s terrible if some people want to offer paid/ad supported options for apps, especially if they’re offering a better UX, which is often the case for paid apps. Huge shoutout to voyager though. It’s got basically all my big ticket items and same added QoL features. In general, please consider donating to FOSS projects if you can and/or to your FOSS Lemmy app and/or instance host.